If I thought anyone was going to read it, I would feel less bad about writing them.
I read them 🥲. Not a corpo tho.
We absolutely read them at my place, and they make a huge difference on who will and won’t get an interview.
We have to write multiple professional letters daily that all end up being subject to Open Records requests. If you can’t handle a simple cover letter you aren’t worth interviewing.
Exposing the terrible inefficiencies of the blasphemous Public Sector.
Obviously, all of this work should be done by AI.
‘hey losers. looks like you need shit to get done. hire me or stay sucking. peace out’
(actually i’m contemplating falsely applying to jobs i have no intention of actually seeking and literally using this as my cover letter just to see if anything funny happens…)
(i like the job i already have)3 reasons you need an employee
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You can’t do it yourself
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You don’t have time to do it yourself
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You really don’t want to do it yourself
Your move boss-man.
- You need to increase your head count or your budget will go down next fiscal year
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With Claude my cover letters take all of 15 minutes to “write.” It’s like the old Soviet adage (slightly adjusted): They pretend to read them, so we pretend to write them.
funny how literally the only thing i consistently see AI being useful for is the pointless bullshit tasks that don’t accomplish anything but the further complication of shit that didn’t need to be so complicated in the first place. such as busywork. They’re jerking us around to waste our time so i see no reason to treat their time as though it’s particularly valuable either; turnabout is fair play, after all.
“I noticed you need workers and have money. What a coincidence, I have work and need money. Trade?”
No, of course not. I also need you to be miserable. A fair trade won’t help me break your spirit. Maybe beg a little and kiss my ass and I’ll consider it.
As a EUrangutan I had to google what a cover letter means and now I am depressed.
Are your CVs typically just bullet points about experience and education?
Yes, makes it easier for the recruiter. that’s how it’s taught at school, too. At least was, haven’t been in school for a while but have applied for jobs using this format.
Sometimes they ask to write a small letter about how you think you are right for this job. I thought that was the cover letter. It’s not supposed to be very long.
Yes, that’s a cover letter.
I think it depends on the country and industry. I never ever had to write a cover letter, but then again most of my jobs the company recruiters found and messaged me instead of the other way around. On the other hand one of my friends had to recently write a detailed cover letter and heavily customize their CV for every job they applied to.
I honestly don’t know. I found my job through an employment agency, I worked there a few months and they offered me a permanent contract. I said yes and that was nine years ago.
Yep pretty much, we have a EU format for CVs and maybe add a little letter of why you think you are the right person for the job and that’s it, something short
Some examples:
Examples
maybe add a little letter of why you think you are the right person for the job…something short
You’ve succinctly described a cover letter :)
Yeah but you don’t have to send one, just if you wanna be fancy and no one makes long ass letters like in the USA, that was the point of the comment
Very common in Germany.
But how will they know that you want the job?
My first job out of college was back in the days when you bought a newspaper and looked in the classifieds.
I set up a mail merge in word to generate cover letters for hundreds of jobs. Each entry in the database had a single sentence related to the job to make the cover letter look like it was written just for that job.
Years after I was hired, my boss told me that they received hundreds of applicants, but I stood out because I took the time to write a cover letter to go with my resume.
It was an IT job, so I always figured it was less cheating and more a confirmation of my skills.
Now we use AI to write resumes and cover letters for every possible eligible job listing that will all get read by AI thousands at a time. And it will still be a shit job that doesn’t pay you enough to live on.
I once send single empty page pdf file and during call hr assumed their pdf viewer was broken. I haven’t denied it.
did u get the job?
I don’t remember it was very long time ago and I was desperate so I was applying in masses.
Even better, each job app asks for something specific so you have to alter or re-write your cover letter hundreds of times for the hundreds of apps you have to submit to get a single shitty job.
Or they have a questionnaire, so instead of just submitting the cover letter and resume you’ve painstakingly constructed (and probably having to alter those), you have to type a paragraph long answer for each of the questions, amounting to at least another page or two you have to generate every. single. time.
I work in IT and essentially every job app had a questionnaire.
That way when you get a job you feel like you’ve won some sort of dystopian lotto and are just happy you aren’t starving in a gutter. Feels intentional.
Please find attached my AI generated resume in response to your AI generated job listing.
Then your cover letter should say that.
Is this an actual option?
If you can eat it in an hour, it’s free and you get a t-shirt!
Last year I applied for my second job ever. My resume was comprised of 12 years working the same unskilled minimum wage job. I had a high school education. No technical certificates or anything like that… Wtf do I even do for a resume, besides
Name
phone number
email address
Professional experience: can read and follow simple instructions, can stack boxes
Thankfully the place was desperate for more employees and reading/following simple instructions was enough to get me through my probationary period. Turns out being of roughly average intelligence is enough to make it in life
And that’s why I’m still unemployed!
